Shrimp shortage up north, plenty down southJuly 29, 2015Fishing boats that go after shrimp in Norway's cold northern waters have been facing a shortage of the summer delicacy, while in southern Norway, the rekefisket (literally, shrimp fishing) is better than it has been in several years. "Now the shrimp are coming back," Alf Ulland of the Ulland seafood terminal at Hidra in Vest-Agder told [...]

Norway and Russia ‘re-adjust’ borderJuly 29, 2015Russian survey crews have been out gathering data this summer that will be used to "re-adjust" parts of their northern border with Norway that literally have washed away in recent decades. After more than a year of diplomatic tension between Russia and Norway, the border definition project appears to be proceeding agreeably. It's the first time since 1947 that the border [...]